Newsroom OS – Editorial Control & AI Assistant

1.4.3.3

🚀 The “State of Perfection” Update

• FIX (Sync): Full synchronization of version 1.4.3.3 across all files (PHP, JS, CSS) for proper cache busting.
• FIX (Real-time): The Editor Sidebar is now 100% live. Removed transient caching from Tasks for instant synchronization between the Admin dashboard and the Editor.
• ENHANCEMENT (Performance): The AI Tag Suggester now strictly activates only after 100 characters of text are written, ensuring zero browser lag even with 4,000 tags loaded in memory.
• ENHANCEMENT (SEO): Full integration of the “Primary City” field into the Schema engine for automated areaServed and location markup generation (Local SEO).
• ENHANCEMENT (UI): Dynamic translation (English/Greek) of the settings fields based on the active site language.
• PERFORMANCE: Optimized Composite SQL Indexes (idx_author_status, idx_status_date) for enterprise-grade query speed on large datasets.
• HYGIENE: Automated weekly database cleanup routine that quietly removes completed tasks older than 90 days, keeping the database fast and lean.

1.4.3.2

🚀 The Ultimate Enterprise Performance Update

• FIX (Performance): Massively optimized the Gutenberg and Classic editor load times (TTFB) for high-traffic news websites. The Tag Suggester AI now strictly limits its payload to the top 500 most-used tags and utilizes a 12-hour Transient Cache. This eliminates PHP memory exhaustion and UI lag on mature sites with tens of thousands of tags.
• FIX (Database): Added a new Composite SQL Index (idx_author_status) to the alerts table. This prevents full-table scans and ensures lightning-fast editorial task retrieval, even if your site has 10,000+ active alerts.
• FIX (Scalability): Optimized user selection queries in the Admin Dashboard. The system now limits dropdowns to 100 active authors, ensuring the settings page never hangs on sites with massive user bases.
• FIX (UX): Resolved an issue where the Onboarding Wizard redirect wouldn’t correctly trigger upon fresh plugin activation.
• ENHANCEMENT: Tag suggestions are now significantly more accurate. By utilizing the 500 highest-count tags, the AI naturally filters out typos and one-off terms, suggesting only high-value entities for your Knowledge Graph.
• MAINTENANCE: Added an automatic weekly database cleanup routine that quietly removes completed tasks older than 90 days, keeping your database lean and fast.
• SYSTEM: Implemented a seamless background database updater. The plugin now automatically applies new SQL indexes upon updating, without requiring users to deactivate and reactivate the plugin.

1.4.3.1

• FIX: Resolved an issue where the onboarding wizard redirect wouldn’t trigger upon fresh plugin activation.

1.4.3

🔥 The “Hybrid Enterprise” Update (AI, Voice & Performance)

• NEW (SEO): Hybrid Knowledge Graph! You can now manually define Tag Entity Types (Person, Place, Organization, etc.) or let the AI auto-detect them.
• NEW (Local SEO): Added Geo-Coordinates (Latitude/Longitude) directly to Tags. Your articles now automatically generate “dateline” and precise local schema markup.
• NEW (Voice SEO): Added “Speakable” Schema support. Define CSS classes in settings to make your news articles Google Assistant & Smart Speaker ready.
• NEW (SEO): Added support for ItemList (Carousel) generation even on Custom Feed Pages built with Page Builders (Elementor, WPBakery).
• FIX (Performance): Completely rebuilt the JavaScript Decision Engine. Removed heavy setIntervals and implemented a silent, event-driven Gutenberg/Classic listener (Zero CPU idle load).
• FIX (Performance): Implemented strict 3-second timeouts for all external RSS fetching (Competitors & Google Trends) to prevent your server from hanging if external APIs go down.
• FIX (Schema): The articleBody is now rendered in full (removed the 150-word truncation) for maximum AI & LLM extractability.
• FIX (Schema): Smart “Logo Hunter” added. The plugin now falls back to Yoast, Rank Math, or Site Icon if your theme doesn’t define a custom logo.
• FIX (Schema): Added Unicode Normalization (nros_global_unaccent) to safely match entities across all languages, bypassing transliteration/Greeklish plugins.
• FIX (UI): The “Disable Auto-Timeline” checkbox in the sidebar now successfully saves your preference.
• FIX (UX): The Tag Suggester now uses a 1-click silent AJAX adder (no scrolling, no manual copy-pasting required).

1.4.2

🛡️ Security, Schema & Stability Update

• FIX (Security): Patched an SQL Injection vulnerability in the Story Timeline generator.
• FIX (Security): Added missing cryptographic Nonces and authorization checks to the Onboarding Wizard AJAX endpoints.
• FIX (Schema/GSC): Resolved Google Search Console validation errors by strictly attributing news events as Thing instead of Event.
• FIX (Compatibility): Fixed a critical TypeError (Fatal Error) that occurred when disabling Rank Math’s native schema.
• FIX (Cleanup): The plugin now performs a 100% clean uninstall, automatically removing all residual User Meta, Term Meta, and Post Meta fields.
• NEW (UX): Restored the Live Google Core Update Tracker!
• NEW (Performance): Drastically reduced database load on the Admin Dashboard by caching schema column checks (DESC).

1.4.1

🚀 The Entity Engine & AIO Update

• NEW: Deterministic Entity Engine based on Tags (no NLP guessing)
• NEW: Dynamic Entity Typing (Person, Organization, GovernmentService)
• NEW: Fully linked Schema Graph with @id nodes
• NEW: Auto-Citations from external links (boosts trust signals)
• NEW: Full AMP schema compatibility
• FIX: Fixed schema date formatting (Google News compliant)
• FIX: Enforced HTTPS for all media URLs

1.4.0

• Added Decision Engine (Publish Score + Next Best Action)
• Added FAQ & Key Takeaways generation
• Upgraded dashboard with real-time metrics

1.1.0

• Initial release